2008 Peay Vineyards Syrah Les Titans Estate Sonoma Coast

Tanzer, 93 points
Bright purple.  Sexy black raspberry and floral aromas are complicated by smoky minerals, Moroccan spices and a hint of licorice.  Silky, alluringly sweet dark berry flavors pack a serious punch but come off as almost weightless, with tangy minerality adding spine and back-end cut.  Gains weight and power with air and finishes with lingering smokiness and a hint of candied violet.  This clocks in at a low 13.4% alcohol but hardly wants for power, depth or ripeness.

2007 Peay Vineyards "La Bruma" Estate Syrah, Sonoma Coast

Tanzer, 93 points
Glass-staining purple.  Spicy raspberry and candied cherry aromas are complicated by smoky minerals, dark chocolate and fresh violet.  Sweet red berry flavors show very good depth and definition, with subtle anise, smoke and violet pastille qualities building with air.  The clean finish offers a brisk bite of cracked pepper, a touch of darker fruit and very persistent spiciness.  This very seductive Syrah displays no rough edges and wonderful energy. 

2007 Peay Vineyards "La Bruma" Estate Syrah, Sonoma Coast

Tanzer, 93 points
Bright purple. Vibrant raspberry, cherry, potpourri and incense on the sharply focused, highly expressive nose. Dense, juicy and sweet, with graceful strawberry and raspberry flavors and a supple, seamless texture. Picks up spiciness and floral character, as well as a hint of smoke, with a few minutes of aeration. Finishes very long, with gentle tannins and a strong note of candied flowers. I marginally prefer this wine's elegance to the power of the Les Titans today.
Source: International Wine Cellar

International Wine Review, 92+ points
The La Bruma Estate Syrah displays an opaque ruby color with attractive aromas of violets, blueberry and plum. It has a refined and elegant palate with ripe fruit, a silky texture, and firm round tannins. It is beautifully balanced with medium plus acidity and red berry and black fruit flavors. Long lasting on the palate with good concentration, it shows increased elegance and flavor after one-two hours of decanting.

2007 Peay Vineyards "Les Titans" Estate Syrah, Sonoma Coast

International Wine Review, 93 points
The Les Titians Estate Syrah reveals an attractive opaque ruby color and boasts earth and fruit aromas of blueberry, plum and blackberry. On the palate, it displays a soft and silky texture with ripe round concentrated fruit and acidity with a touch of minerals. With decanting the wine reveals more aromas and flavors of earth, pepper, and minerals. This is a powerful wine in a silk glove. Processed like a Pinot Noir with whole berry fermentation in small open top fermenters.

Tanzer, 92+ points
Inky violet. Powerful aromas of crushed blackcurrant, violet, black pepper and olive. Lush and sappy, with deeply concentrated black and blue fruit and spice flavors energized by smoky minerality. Nothing thick or heavy about this wine, which packs a real punch. Finishes with enticing spicy lift and very good persistence. This should be even better with a bit of bottle age.
Source: International Wine Cellar

2006 Peay Vineyards "La Bruma" Estate Syrah, Sonoma Coast

Wine & Spirits, 95 points
The fog at Peay's far-coast vineyard seems to invest syrah with meaty peppercorn spice, the element in this wine that powers the red fruit with a nearly electric buzz. The color translates the fog into a vibrant, rosy edge: the tannins take it to mean minerals, as if picking up on the same soil character that pinot noir might translate into wine. La Bruma continues to grow more distinctive and elegant with each vintage.

Tanzer, 94 points
Vivid ruby. Seductively perfumed bouquet of fresh raspberry, black olive, Asian spices and minerals. Sweet red berry flavors stain the palate and are framed by silky tannins that are quickly absorbed by the fruit. There's a pinot-like tension and focus to this wine that's really intriguing. The very clean finish features excellent precision and cut. This is Cote-Rotie to La Bruma's Hermitage.
Source: International Wine Cellar

Vinography, score around 9.5
Dark garnet in the glass, this wine has an arresting nose of white pepper, cassis, and violets. In the mouth it first manifests as well-structured: tight, lean and muscled with flavors of cassis, white pepper, leather, and deeper, darker peaty qualities that give it a great deal of soul. The wine has great length through the finish with beautiful blueberry notes emerging after a minute or so.

2006 Peay Vineyards "Les Titans" Estate Syrah, Sonoma Coast

Wine & Spirits, 93 points

Tanzer, 94 points
Inky ruby. Strikingly pungent aromas of cherry skin, cassis, smoked meat, violet and minerals. More powerful than the La Bruma, with deeper dark berry and bitter cherry flavors and a late note of candied licorice. Gains energy on the finish, which is sweet, spicy and very long. I'd put this away for at least another five years.
Source: International Wine Cellar

Vinography
Dark garnet in color, this wine has a deep nose of cassis combined with meaty blackberry aromas. In the mouth it offers a unique combination of umeboshi (Japanese pickled plum) and what I can only describe as a handful of hand picked blackberries -- a mix of ripe and slightly unripe blackberries. This fruit is underwritten by a granitic quality that marries to tartness that lingers in the finish. Score: between 9 and 9.5.